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Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground

In ten pages this paper discusses the archaeological discovery of the African burial ground in New York's lower Manhattan. Seven ...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

New York Times Article on the Economy of Nigeria

.Measures adopted to deal with this situation by the Central Bank of Nigeria led to severe liquidity crunch and escalation in ban...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

African Art and Symbolism

of the symbols of a culture if we have not been born into it, or lived within it for a long time. However we may say that, modern...

Colonialism and Feminism as Seen in Ngugi and Head

This paper examines the Twentieth Century authors, Ngugi and head. The author specifically addresses the contributions of the fem...

William Reno's Warlord Politics and African States

In six pages this paper examines the societal impact of the author's study featured in Warlord Politics and African States by Will...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho Nthunya

In five pages this South African autobiography is examined with poverty and apartheid impacts upon families among the topics discu...

International Sanctions and Apartheid Economic Constraints and the Response of the Government

is economic disruption" (pp. 119). The important intent of the sanctions against South Africa were to disturb both the economic c...

African Writers V.Y. Mudimbe, Sembene Ousmane, and Mariana Ba Compared

which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...

American Families and Single Parents

In ten pages this paper discusses single dual parenting and considers the differences between Caucasian and African single parents...

Introduction to West African History by Michael Crowder

In five pages this paper examines how West Africans were affected culturally and politically by the colonial rule of France and Gr...

Africa Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley

This paper consists of nine pages and examines the African exploration of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ad featured in The Exploration ...

Demographic and Marketing Issues in Nigeria

This paper analyzes the demographic, business, and travel information relevant to planning an investment in the African country of...

Slave Narratives and the Portrayal of White Europeans

as I thought, in so savage a manner; for I had never seen among my people such instances of brutal cruelty. The closeness of the ...

African Philosophy Bantu

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

Contrast and Comparison of Empires in Ghana, Songhay, and Mali with Other Civilizations

a primitive culture when it was colonized. In fact, it was this myth that was generated by Europeans. They needed a reason to ju...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

Essays on Mythology

and furthermore substantiates the domination of men over women. The clear message is that the patriarchal, punishing Jehovah shoul...

Political Background of Somaliland

1960, on the 1st of July the same year they joined Somalia, a former Italian colony to create the Somali Republic. The cultures an...

Africa and the Practices of Dowry and Bridewealth

in that it effectively gives the bride her share of the familys fortune. Traditional Uses Hanson (2002) explains that dowry...

Ancient Kemet and the Role of Women

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

Diet and High Blood Pressure Among African Canadians

while in utero, which reduces the nephron number and resets the pressure-natriuresis curve rightward (Forrester, 2004). Since Afri...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Strategies in South Africa

case in South Africa. There is ongoing civil unrest, high rates of crime, one of the highest rates of AIDS in the world, rigid lab...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

An Examination of African Sleeping Sickness and its Causes

responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central ...

Africa and an Effective and Incorruptible Authority Establishment

& Nwankwo, 2003). Authors say that if any effective reform is to be initiated, such as in the form of debt relief, it must be don...

Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'

change, most notably the changes that take place in relationship to a leading member of the old tradition, Okonkwo. Okonkwo is ...